Drew this up while watching Ugly Betty and surfing Apartment Therapy’s annual color contest. Yay for color!

One of these days I’m going to have to start actually inking my drawing in Photoshop instead of just darkening my pencil lines.

just some stuff from my sketchbook and the most recent Dr. Sketchy’s gathering

Poor little horse. I’ve had no time to work on you; instead I’ve spent hours making robots rollerskate and knights run around, filling out job applications, and playing too much Plants vs Zombies. I did do one more animation pass and a first pass of a texture for you, so at least you aren’t naked anymore. It’s partially your fault you know- your hoof ik controls do not actually stick to the ground properly and they’re giving me fits. Perhaps one day I’ll have time to make you gallop…

It has just come to my attention that there’s a bit of a hitch in IE6 that causes my left hand column, site navigation and all, to go wandering down to the bottom of the page. Please be patient while I track down the problem, or get your self a non-Microsoft browser. Firefox is my personal favorite. In the meantime, please enjoy RobotJohnny’s take on the situation:

Now that I’m finished AM I’ve been supplementing my animation internship with life drawing class at San Francisco City College. It’s a great deal- much cheaper than joining a private group, and with the benefit of an instructor. This term I’ve had Diane Olivier and it’s been a lot of fun. The only downside is that City College’s main campus is probably the coldest, foggiest, most miserable part of the whole city on most days. Thank goodness for my trusty insulated thermos full of tea.

Here are some drawings I’ve done in the first half of the term. I’ll try and do a sketchbook dump soon too.

Some people may have already heard about the great PAX flu of 2009. If you haven’t, what transpired was half of the world’s web comic artists went to a convention and came back with a flu so bad they couldn’t draw their own strips.

The upside of their misery is that the guest strips done to fill the content void have introduced me to a bunch of new artists. One of my favorites so far is Ramon Perez’s PvP strip.

His own comic Kukuburi is now on my favorites list. I like it so much I drew this little fan art homage:

Over time I’ve come around in my thinking about comic/manga fan art. I used to avoid doing it because I saw too many fan art makers that couldn’t draw without the crutch of the source material. They had gotten locked into bad habits and styles that weren’t their own without learning the theory & practice that was the basis of the art they were copying. However, now that I’m a little more confident in my own drafting abilities, I can see how much I can learn from the getting inside another artist’s thought process by copying. Plus, it’s relaxing to draw within constraints; a blank page can be such a scary thing!